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Strong disagree. A lot of AI development still requires good engineers to keep tight leash on it so I'm seeing more bad developers create a feature until we need to iterate on said feature and we find AI did such a bad job that it becomes extremely difficult to do so.

> Subcontracting is a thing. It's not a bad thing on its own.

I wouldn't say subcontracting is a bad thing always. It depends on reason for subcontracting and in this case, I'd call it bad since subcontracting is clearly to avoid liability for what is critical business function.

>Is "Joe's delivery company" not already required to have liability insurance?

Yes they are. It is enough? Not always. States are always trying to balance allowing protecting general public but not strangling small businesses. It doesn't always work out.

>Do we think that a delivery company delivering the same package for Amazon vs. FedEx vs. Mary's Flowers Inc. vs. NYC Movers Inc. should have a different amount of liability? (e.g., if that delivery driver injures a pedestrian, should we require that NYC Movers Inc. covers fewer costs than Amazon)?

This law would impact all those companies if they move their drivers into subcontractor. Amazon is getting called out because they are BIGGEST users of this system but no, they are not only ones.

Race to bottom dynamic

Here is the problem, Amazon is not actually driving most of "Amazon" trucks you see the on the road. They are likely being driven and owned by "Joes Delivery Company LLC". If you look at the bottom of the truck, you will generally see the ACTUAL owner name. So if anything happens to worker or public is harmed, Joes Delivery Company is cutout fall person. So if worker or public sues or fined, the company folds, the assets sold off to Joes Delivery Company, the part deus" and it starts all over again.

This act is basically saying "Nope, we are considering them Amazon employees, so we can sue or fine Amazon for their actions regardless of name on employees paycheck or car registered owner." Also, if they combined into single company, it makes union actions much easier.

This happens with FedEx/UPS as well.

Amazon may require the subcontractor wears the Amazon vest in contract with subcontractor. That's whole point, they appear to be Amazon employees in every way except for paycheck the employee receives and small lettering on the bottom of the car compared to big "AMAZON" lettering on the side.

This matters if they do something and you go to sue them. All of sudden, you find out it's tiny company with only 1Million in assets and crappy insurance after they crash into a bus and cause brain damage. (https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15983591/teenager-lif...)

The act basically makes Amazon responsible for these subcontractors. BTW, they are not only ones who do this, UPS and Fedex have similar setups.

The problem here is Amazon farms out delivery to these companies, set impossible delivery standards that require these subcontractor employees to do things that break the law OR cause damage to their health. However, since Amazon is technically not employing them, they have no liability.

I can't read the first article 100% but it's linked here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle... which I noted in my original post seems to be full of juiced numbers.

Second link talks about revenue and operating costs. Again, it's very possible that Anthropic is profitable as I hinted looking at pure revenue vs operating costs. That's like saying your delivery service is profitable because you are only looking at the cost of drivers + gas and ignoring maintenance, car purchases and building of garages to get you to that point.

Again, the poster you replied to is right. If they are extremely profitable, the logical thing is file S-1 publicly and IPO. The fact they haven't done so is interesting.

Because again, we haven't seen further reports. As always, we are debating financials on a company that doesn't have to disclose them regularly.

It's not violence from the job but their job was generally bad for their health in other ways. Sitting all day without getting up and driving around with windows down getting all this UV.

Also, older ones were exposed to a ton of cigarette smoke.

As Ed Zitron pointed out, that "quarter" of profitability is EBITDA profitability and comes with plenty of creative accounting. When they do it for a year, we can say "They have found profitability"

>Anthropic has 80%+ margins on inference.

That's like saying my delivery company is profitable because with current gas prices, my margin is 80%. Yea, what about all money you spent to get there? You still profitable then?

>Eventually MS dealt with piracy by going after firms, and finally by offering something cheap enough.

Sure, because they realized that selling software at any cost because software has extremely low overhead. Selling 100M Windows at 2 USD was easier and my guess is a wash at that price.

However, AI is not selling software, it's selling hardware usage which is not free and has real cost. If Rs 1800 which is 20 USD is not profitable, then they will not offer it.

Project Highrise doesn't have elevator simulation. Elevator is just portal that teleports the sim to proper floor.

I hate these type of questions, they scream "YOUR HOLDING IT WRONG."

My experience is if you have been racking up the tech debt and have some low hanging fruit, Claude is really good at cleaning it up. If you have been properly stewarding the project, it's much less effective.

It's not a good idea, I'd call it terrible in fact. We have MX Records, might as well use those. If not, use SRV records. Requiring mail server to involved in root of the domain is terrible idea.

As former Email Principal at major provider, sure, they run into blacklisting problems.

However, most of time, it's not that providers are blacklisting because "Ha ha ha, screw the little guy" but more "Yea, they are hosting on IP blocks with terrible reputation and spammers are absolute liars. I refuse to trust whatever they say, period."

If you have your own /24 or greater, you can become email provider. It's also just such a low margin business, it's not worth small businesses disrupting it.

You shouldn't. If you are small enough, use Docker Compose with Ansible.

Once you get big enough, Kubernetes for 99% of companies, is next logical step.

Sure, it's just another application technically. On more practical level, it's pretty much an OS.

SRE here, when most people say "Server Management" they are talking the root of their problem. "I have this set of Applications and that need to run on this fleet of servers. How do I do this?" and Kubernetes is commonly the answer but not only answer.

Yes, you still need to something to "install" the Kubernetes but that is generally easier surface area with something like Talos OS, K3s, whatever Canonical/Red Hat cooked up.

Seems like better setup would be you stage a release and upload but once it’s promoted, its immutable.

In my experience, so many people these days do not have personal computer at home. Their personal computing is phone/tablet and if they game, it's done via a console.

EDIT: My wife didn't until she got "second job" as volunteer and needed to do some real work. Before that, she was planning entire vacations from her phone.

I would assume they are company managed Macs so they could just order a remote wipe and then remove them from iCloud so they revert to their out of box setup.

I think they did it in simulation with several.

In any case, dogfighting is commonly done because it's great training but in most cases, you expect most Air to Air combat being flinging missiles at each other.

It's generally more expensive for them when it comes to things like power, water and internet.

Boonies have very poor in each of those and building it up would take too long so throw another in Northern Virginia since they have expensive access to additional of that but at least it will become operational.

Stored Functions/Procedures tend to make database into monolith with API that everyone calls, with endless screaming when it gets too big and any schema change takes days to accomplish.

That's something that OP didn't discuss is shared databases vs services owning their own. When you are startup, it's really tempting to have services reach into database and skip API call.

It's both sad and understandable. So many Applications would want to be running in the background for data collection reasons or just user responsiveness. While it could be a permission, after watching so many people just hand out "Sure, have my location always and forever" to any application that ask for it, the OS would get totally overwhelmed.

This P2P system would probably only work if implemented by Google/Apple themselves and they have zero desire to do so since it's a feature almost no one would want.

You are allowed to record stuff happening in private spaces depending on the situation and state you are in.

For example, you could photograph or record the dance floor in nightclub since dance floor is very public. However, the bathroom would not be allowed. Of course, the venue could make up rules and eject you for doing so.

Most of "Warning signs" are deterrence, maybe someone will behave better if they know cameras are watching. Also, it's cheap insurance dictate by the lawyers who think "Signs are 100 bucks total but someone filing privacy lawsuit is thousands, put up the signs."

They don't strike, they just respond really slowly, pretend they didn't see something or just take reports and barely solve anything.

Since they are all unionized and replacing them is crazy slow and expensive, nothing happens.

Yes and almost no one cares.

>Yeah they say it's not for enterprise usage but ok whatever.

For now, it's clear that they will likely begin restricting the subs or severely cut back their token allowance.

I could also see Claude looking at source code/repos to try and figure out if it's closed source. If true, demand token payment.